Our historical statistics are always for precisely defined areas, usually administrative units, not "places". We know about the following units named after Heywood. Each has its own "home page" with much more information. Click on a tick to go directly to a particular statistical theme.

Administrative Area:	Popu- lation	Life+ Death	Indu- stry	Work+ Poverty	Social Class	Hous- ing	Learn +Lang	Roots+ Relig.	Land Use
Heywood MB
Heywood USD
Heywood LabMkt
Heywood SubD
Heywood St James EP
Heywood St Luke EP
Heywood All Souls EP
Heywood Ch/CP
Heywood EP

Be careful! A unit may cover just the town or village, but it may include a big surrounding area. For example, in England and Wales rural districts — units with RD or RSD suffixes — may even exclude the places they are named after. The "Units covering this place" tab lists units whose boundaries contained Heywood.

Election Results

Election results are available for these constituencies associated with Heywood.

Constituencies	Start Date	End Date
South East Lancashire Heywood PDivCon	1885	1918
Lancashire Heywood and Radcliffe PDivCon	1918	1948
Heywood and Middleton CCon	1983

Additional constituencies that covered Heywood may be listed on the "Units covering this place" tab.

This website includes information on many different historical units, including census data and other statistics. The boundaries of these units covered Heywood:

Administrative Area:	Popu- lation	Life+ Death	Indu- stry	Work+ Poverty	Social Class	Hous- ing	Learn +Lang	Roots+ Relig.	Land Use
Middleton AP/CP
Ashworth CP/Ch
Birtle Cum Bamford CP/Tn
Heywood Ch/CP
Heywood MB
Bury RD
Bury RegD/PLU
Rochdale District
Bury O41area
Lancashire AdmC
Lancashire AncC
Greater Manchester Met.C
Lancashire RegC
the North West GovOf
Great Britain Dep
England and Wales Dep

Click on a tick for direct access to that theme.

Election Results

Election results are available for these constituencies which covered Heywood.

Constituencies	Start Date	End Date
Lancashire Southern PDivCon	1832	1867
South Lancashire South East Lancashire PDivCon	1868	1884
South East Lancashire Heywood PDivCon	1885	1917
Lancashire Heywood and Radcliffe PDivCon	1918	1948
Heywood and Royton CCon	1949	1982
Heywood and Middleton CCon	1983	2009

Please note that these units are listed here because their boundaries covered the point location we hold for Heywood. You can search for units that covered the particular location you are interested in by typing a postcode into our home page, or by using our Historic maps section, zooming in, selecting the Information option, and then clicking on your location. Units will also not be listed here if we hold no computerised boundaries for them, such as Registration sub-Districts and Sanitary Districts.